 it gives a kind of shriekes or groanes, that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the oake lamenting. E. Wyld, Esq., hath heard it severall times.  Harper's Magazine - Strana 243upravili: - 1918Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1893 - 902 str.
...elsewhere. " When the oak is being felled," says Aubrey, in his Remaines of Qentilisme, page 247, " it gives a kind of shriekes and groanes that may be...of the oak lamenting. E. Wyld, Esqr., hath heard it severall times." Certain Indians, says Bastian, dare not cut a particular plant, because there comes... | |
 | Thomas Arthur Preston - 1888 - 524 str.
...think eight may sitt round. When an oake is falling, before it falles, it gives a kind of shreikes or groanes, that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the oake lamenting. E. Wyld, Esq., hath heard it severall times,' etc. — Aubrey, ' Nat. Hist. Wilts,'... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1890 - 436 str.
...supposed to feel injuries done to them. When an oak is being felled " it gives a kind of shriekes or groanes, that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the oake lamenting. E. Wyld, Esq., hath heard it severall times."* The Ojebways "very seldom cut down green... | |
 | 1893 - 922 str.
...elsewhere. " When the oak is being felled," says Aubrey, in his Remaines of Gentilisme, page 247, " it gives a kind of shriekes and groanes that may be...of the oak lamenting. E. Wyld, Esqr., hath heard it severall times." Certain Indians, says Bastian, dare not cut a particular plant, because there comes... | |
 | Marian Roalfe Cox - 1895 - 362 str.
...has been said that " when an oake is felling, before it falls it gives a kind' of shriekes or groans, that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the oake lamenting." John Aubrey (1686-87), from whose writings this passage is quoted, adds : " It has... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1897 - 472 str.
...abundantly elsewhere. " When the oak is being felled," says Aubrey, in his Remains of Gentilisme, " it gives a kind of shriekes and groanes that may be...it were the genius of the oak lamenting. E. Wyld, Esq., hath beared it severall times." Certain Indians, says Bastian, dare not cut a particular plant,... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - 510 str.
...animate, they are necessarily sensitive. When an oak is being felled " it gives a kind of shriekes or groanes, that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the oake lamenting. E. Wyld, Esq., hath heard it sevcrall times." 5 The Ojebways " very seldom cut down... | |
 | Maud Going - 1903 - 384 str.
...murder, for Aubrey says that " when an Oake is felling, before it falles, it gives a kind of shriekes or groanes that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the Oake lamenting." In northern Europe the oak has gathered all fairyland about its roots. In Germany... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1905 - 108 str.
...local god.48 An old writer records that " when an oake is being felled it gives a kind of shriekes or groanes that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the *8 Dorman's Primitive Superstitions, p. 288. 73 oake lamenting." He quaintly adds : " E. Wyld, Esq.,... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1914 - 276 str.
...writer of the seventeenth century says that "when an oake is being felled it gives a kind of shriekes or groanes that may be heard a mile off as if it were the genius of the oake lamenting." Turning to classic ground, the ancient Roman farmer, before clearing the soil of trees,... | |
| |
